Constitution Check: Could the House sue the President for refusing to carry out the laws?
Lyle Denniston looks at a big constitutional barrier to the courts acting as an arbiter of inter-branch disputes between Congress and the White House.
Woman or machine? New robots look creepily human
TOKYO (AP) — The new robot guides at a Tokyo museum look so eerily human and speak so smoothly they almost outdo people — almost.
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DEAR ABBY: My 19-year-old sister died two years ago from an overdose. I'm 13. We were very close when we were little, but during the four years before she passed away, my parents didn't want us around each other for fear of her rubbing off on me, and she wasn't home half the time anyway. A year…
Indonesia prostitutes resist red-light shutdown
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — The mayor of Indonesia's second-largest city has officially shut down "Dolly," one of Southeast Asia's biggest red-light districts, but the world's oldest profession is still working despite warnings to stop.
Man's plea deal includes vasectomy requirement
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man who has fathered children with several women has agreed to get a vasectomy to reduce his prison term by up to five years in a child endangerment case that has evoked the country's dark history of forced sterilization.
Cop Killers Were Heavily Armed, Wore Diapers, Police Say
A man and woman who killed two Las Vegas police officers and a Wal-Mart shopper before they died in a store shootout earlier this month were heavily armed and carried ammunition including armor-piercing bullets.
March 1964 quake causes tsunami, destruction from Alaska to California (10 photos)
North America's largest earthquake rattled Alaska 50 years ago, killing 15 people and creating a tsunami that killed 124 more from Alaska to California. (AP) Find more news related pictures on our photo galleries page and follow us on Tumblr.
Russia's Putin renounces right to send troops to Ukraine: Kremlin
President Vladimir Putin asked Russia's upper house on Tuesday to revoke the right it had granted him to order a military intervention in Ukraine in defence of Russian-speakers there, the Kremlin said in a statement. The step seems certain to be welcomed by the West as a sign Moscow could be ready…
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AdChoicesUnitedHealthcare Ins Co.SponsoredEbola 'out of control' in West Africa: MSF
An epidemic of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa is now "out of control" with more than 60 outbreak hotspots, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said. "The scale of the current Ebola epidemic is unprecedented in terms of geographical distribution, people infected and deaths," MSF…
HTC gleefully trashes the Galaxy S5 with brutal Band-Aid graphic
There’s no doubt that Samsung’s Galaxy S5 is significantly outselling the HTC One (M8). Nonetheless, that hasn’t stopped HTC from having a bit of fun at its rival’s expense and the company’s official Twitter account on Monday posted a new message that simply reads, “One of these things is not like…
Ex-prosecutor, wife plead in adoption abuse case
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former Pennsylvania prosecutor and his wife pleaded no contest Monday to endangering the welfare of two adopted Ethiopian children after child welfare officials found the boy had been underfed and the girl physically abused.
Suicide bomber strikes in southern Beirut (29 photos)
A suicide bomber blew up his car in southern Beirut near an army checkpoint, killing himself and wounding several people watching the soccer World Cup in a nearby cafe. The bombing came just three days after a failed attempt to kill one of the top security officials in Lebanon, which has suffered a…
Philippine leader backs larger Japan military role
TOKYO (AP) — The leader of the Philippines on Tuesday endorsed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ongoing push to expand Japan's military role.
Portuguese seek culprits for World Cup flop
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal fans searching for explanations for their team's disappointing World Cup performances are finding plenty of possible culprits.
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AdChoicesThomas Jefferson Law SponsoredNorth Korea army mobilized as rivers run dry in worst drought in years
By James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's rivers, streams and reservoirs are running dry in a prolonged drought, state media said on Monday, prompting the isolated country to mobilize some of its million-strong army to try to protect precious crops. The drought is the worst in North Korea…
US special forces face complex challenge in Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. teams of special forces going into Iraq after a three-year gap will face an aggressive insurgency, a splintering military and a precarious political situation as they help Iraqi security forces improve their ability to battle Sunni militants.
Nuns willing to care for priest who killed nun
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest convicted of killing a nun at a hospital chapel in 1980 wants a federal judge to let him out of prison so he can spend his final days at an Ohio nursing home run by nuns.
Pet dog scares off bear to save Japan boy from attack
A placid pet dog was being hailed a hero after saving a five-year-old boy from a mauling by a wild bear in northern Japan, police and media said Tuesday. The dog barked "unusually loud" and chased off the animal on Saturday evening in Odate, some 550 kilometres (340 miles) north of Tokyo, a local…
IRS head says no laws broken in loss of emails
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in Congress aren't buying the contention by the head of the Internal Revenue Service that he has seen no evidence anyone committed a crime when the agency lost emails that might shed light on the targeting of tea party and other political groups before the 2010 and…
US student dies after falling off cliff in India
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) — A graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who went missing more than a week ago in northern India has been found dead in a ravine after she reportedly slipped while jogging and fell several hundred feet off a cliff, MIT officials said Sunday.
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